Follow along as the home comes to life
Progress updates, upcoming events, and the moments along the way — from a secured building to an open door.
Next event
Mercy Manor Community Roundup
An evening of fellowship, updates on the home's progress, and a chance to meet the board and hear how to get involved.
Date, time, and location to be confirmed.
What's happened lately
The roundup: the room turned out
Summer 2026. Gingham on the tables, hats on nearly everybody, barbecue in the car park — and a full room of Hood County neighbours who came to hear what Mercy Manor is building and why. See the evening.
New: the North Texas data page
July 2026. We published The State of the Need in North Texas — every statistic sourced, dated, and linked, with a one-page PDF for board packets, grant applications, and church bulletins. If you write, preach, or report about addiction and homelessness in our region, this page is yours to cite.
The building is secured
2026. After two years of telling every church and group that would listen about a dream with no building to show for it, God provided one: the owners offered their building at a quarter of its worth and financed it themselves, on terms the ministry could truly meet. The fundraiser that followed tripled Mercy Manor's account. Sharon tells the whole story here. Now the work turns to furnishing the home and preparing to welcome the first women.
Board welcomes Pam McFadden
April 2026. Mercy Manor's board grew with the addition of Pam McFadden, a healthcare executive with more than 25 years at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, past president of ACEHP, and co-founder of the DFW Birthday Brigade — bringing governance depth to a board already rich in front-line experience.
The founder's story, in her own words
July 2026. Sharon King has written her full story — the dream she did not want, the life God had been preparing for it, and the 172 homeless schoolchildren in our own district that made looking away impossible. Read Sharon's story.
A ministry is not a building. It's a room full of people who showed up.
Red gingham, borrowed hats, barbecue served out of a tent in the car park, and a room of Hood County neighbours who gave up an evening to hear about a house that has not opened yet.
It is worth being plain about why an evening like this matters more than it looks. Mercy Manor has a building, a board, and a plan — and not one resident. Everything it will be depends on whether the people in this county decide it is theirs. Judging by the room: they have.
If you were there, thank you. If you weren't, the work is the same and the door is open: give, volunteer or pray, or look at what the house still needs.
In the news
As local coverage and church-bulletin features come in, we'll gather them here.